Cider-mill press



(No Model.)

. J. KING.

Cider Miu Press. 1

No. 239,174. Patented March.22,188 1.

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JOHN KING, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT BUTTER- WORTH, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. l

ClDER-MILL PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,174, dated March 22, 1881. Application filed February 4, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KING, of Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvemeutin Cider-Mill Presses 5 and I do herebyr declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specication, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a perspective view of the bed of the press; Figs. 2 and 3, longitudinal sections to illustrate the invention; Fig. 4, top view of the press with the platen removed 5 Fig. 5, the platen inverted.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of cider-presses in which the bed is constructed or arranged so that the pomace may be placed in the hoop set at the end of the bed and then moved to bringit beneath the press, the object being to make the bed stationary and the platen on which the hoop and pom ace are placed movable thereon, whereby greater stability or firmness of the press is had than when the bed itself is movable, and the invention consists in thc construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A represents the bed of the press, which is of more than twice the length required for the operation of pressing. It is formed with an` u pwardly-proj ectin ged ge, to serve as guides for the juice to the exit a. Longitudinally on the bed are guides B, distant from each other the width of the platen C, and so that the platen placed between them, as in Fig. 1, may be moved longitudinally on the bed between the guides B B.

D is a rack or series of holes or notches at theend of the bed, opposite where the pressing is done, and extending about one-half the length of the bed.

The platen C is provided with wheels b b d d at the opposite end, those at one end being nearer the outer edge than the other, so that those at one end do not track 'with those at the other end, or may be otherwise arranged so that the wheels do not track.

At the pressing end of the bed cavities b b d el are made, corresponding to the wheels on the platen, and so that when the wheels enter those recesses the platen will drop flat upon the bed and be supported entirely by the bed. These recesses are,.therefore, made at points corresponding to the position of the wheels when the platen is in the proper position and beneath the pressing devices. This completes the construction.

The operation is as follows: The platen C is placed upon the bed at the end opposite the pressing apparatus-that is, over the notches D, as seen in Fig. 3. On this the hoop is placed and filled with the pomacein the usual manner. Then the workman applies a crow or other lever, the end of which engages in one of the notches D beneath the platen, and, raising the lever, moves'the platen with its load toward the opposite end, thus gradually moving it until the wheels drop into their recesses and the platen takes its bearing upon the bed. Then the pressing is performed in the usual manner, and while the pressing is going on a second platen is arranged on the bed, as before described for the platen C, and loaded with the pomace iu like manner. When the pressing is nished the cheese is removed, also the platen. Then the second platen is moved forward, as described for the first, and the trst platen carried to the other end and placed upon the bed, as before. By this arrangement the only power required for moving the pomace to the press is that which is required to move the platen on its wheels; whereas when the bed is made movable nearly double the power is required, because the bed has the load of the pomace and the cheese. Again, this construction has the advantage that the bed is an immovable part of the press, and hence is equally `as strong and liru asa press having a bed only of sufficient size to receive the pomace directly within it.

From the foregoing it will be understood that I do not broadly claim a cider-mill press constructed so that the pomace may be placed in the hoop at a point one side of the pressingplaten and then moved beneath the platen to be pressed.

I claiml. The combination of the stationary doublelength bed of a cider-press with a platen of single length movable thereon between guides, so as to be transferred from one end to the other of said stationary bed, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the stationary bed ot' acider-press with a platen movable thereon between guides, so as to be transferred from one end to the other, the said platen provided with wheels at both ends, those at one end out of the track of those at the other end, and depressions in the bed corresponding to said wheels at the point where the platen is to stand for the pressing operation, and so that the platen will take its bearing on the bed in- I 5 dependent of the wheels, substantially as described. f

3. The combination of the stationary bed of a cider-press with a platen movable thereon between guides, so as to be transferred from zo one end to the other, and a series of recesses or notches in the bed in a longitudinal line, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JOHN- KING.

Witnesses H. D. BUGKINGHAM, C. BUGKINGHAM. 

